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 16 THE TOURIST'S NORTHWEST to include it in the Northwest itinerary. Coming by way of California, the lakes of Southern Oregon are convenient of access. En route to the north, the traveller who has elected the trail of the Union Pacific or the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy may visit the wonders of Colorado. From Denver, the C. B. and Q. approaches Yellowstone National Park. The Union Pacific system routes its passengers via Salt Lake City and has a branch (Oregon Short Line) to the Yellowstone. This Park is also the featured attraction of the Northern Pacific Road. Widening the touring circle, one may go west by the Santa Fe or Southern Pacific, travel the length of California, turn aside to see Klamath Lake, Crater Lake and the Marble Caves of Southern Oregon, visit the towns and beaches of upper Oregon, go from Portland by train, steamboat or motor-road up the Columbia, return to Portland, proceed by train or the San Francisco and Portland S. S. Co. to Seattle, make a tour of Puget Sound, return east from Seattle, Tacoma, Everett or Bellingham to Spokane (if by the Great Northern from Everett, visiting Lake Chelan en route), and from Spokane continue east by roads lead- ing to Glacier National Park, Yellowstone National Park*3, Salt Lake or Denver. If the tour is to include Western Canada, the trip west or east may be taken through the Canadian Rockies via the Canadian Pacific, Grand Trunk or Canadian Northern. Or the tourist can go by rail or water from Puget Sound points to Vancouver; travel from there through the most *3 The Department of the Interior, Washington, issues a pamphlet, "Glimpses of our National Parks," which the tourist will find of interest.